Uh huh.

Okay, are you ready?

The hour having reached 11 a.m.

I'd like to call the Cook County Audit Committee to order.

Madam Secretary, will you please call the roll?

Commissioner Aguilar?

Commissioner Naya?

Commissioner Britton.

Commissioner Daly.

Commissioner Gaynor.

Absent.

Commissioner Laurie.

Present.

Commissioner McCasco.

Commissioner Miller.

Commissioner Moore.

Present.

Commissioner Marita.

Morita present.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Sean Morrison.

Commissioner Scott.

Present.

Commissioner Stamps.

Commissioner Trevor.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Madam Chair is present.

Present.

Madam Chair, you have a quorum, one participating remotely and absent for Commissioner Gaynor.

There's a quorum.

Yes, please.

Yes.

I'd like to make a motion to allow for remote participation, please.

So move chair.

Second by Daley.

Thank you.

Roll call, Commissioner Aguilar, your vote.

Commissioner Naya.

Aye.

Commissioner Britton.

Commissioner Daly.

Commissioner Gaynor is absent.

Commissioner Laurie.

Aye.

Commissioner McCasco.

Commissioner Miller.

Commissioner Miller is absent.

Commissioner Moore.

Commissioner Moore is absent.

Commissioner Marita.

Morita I.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Sean Morrison.

Morrison I.

Commissioner Scott.

Aye.

Commissioner Stamps.

Aye.

Commissioner Trevor?

Commissioner Vasquez.

Madam Chair.

Aye.

Madam Chair 14.

Three.

Absent for this would be Gaynor Miller Moore.

In the opinion of the chairs, the eyes have it.

Um I'd like to recess this uh committee to the call of the chair.

Right.

Yes.

Okay.

Then I uh uh the hour having reached 1115 a.m.

I'd like to call uh the environment and sustainability committee to order.

Will you please call the roll?

Thank you, ma'am.

Commissioner Britton.

Commissioner Miller is absent.

Commissioner Marita.

Commissioner Marita present.

Commissioner Marita is present participating remotely.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Trevor?

Commissioner Vasquez.

Here.

And Madam Chair.

Here.

Madam Chair, you do have a quorum.

One participating remotely and one absent for Commissioner Miller.

There's a quorum.

Okay.

I'd like to move to allow for remote participation.

Thank you.

Mover and seconder.

Move by Lowry, seconded by not on this one.

Moved by uh Commissioner Britton, seconded by Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Britton, your vote, sir.

Aye.

Commissioner Miller.

Is absent.

Commissioner Morita, your vote, ma'am.

Morita I.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Trevor.

Aye.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Aye.

Madam Chair.

Aye.

Ma'am, your vote is six.

Uh ayes.

One present vote for Commissioner in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it.

I'd like to recess to the college chair and um return to the audit committee, please.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, thank you.

Um, do we have any public speakers?

At your recess meeting, you had all members present with the exception of an absence for Commissioner Gaynor.

Uh you do have public speakers walk in.

Uh please be reminded of the public speaking rules.

You have three minutes to address the body, and I'll keep time for you.

In this order, George Blake Moore, Jessica Jackson.

I don't see present.

Taiwan Sims, I don't see present, and Zoe Lee.

You may begin.

Good afternoon.

This is the audit committee.

So I guess he's dealing with Vanny.

Previously.

I heard the commissioner down here.

Ms.

Stamp.

I'm challenging you, Ms.

Stamp, to communicate with your uh comrade.

You were straight on target.

You should have approached them earlier.

And if you did, and if they didn't uh want to support you, you should have gone directly to the community.

Directly to the community.

What is he talking about?

Directly to us.

And let us know.

Because we could have helped you.

I couldn't believe it.

When he said uh uh it was no US what designated where were you gonna place these cameras?

Where were you gonna place these cameras?

All right now, Mr.

Blake Mo, where are you gonna place these cameras?

Most likely in the black community to get revenue because they're doing it now.

They doing it now.

So uh uh let us not be disconnected, black folks.

Let us work together and help each other and help our people.

Don't be disconnected.

You should have come to the community.

That was that was outrageous when when they uh had this count.

Please let us work with you, sister.

Please let us know what's going on, and we would have uh came down here and surely would have protested this.

These cameras in the past is racist alive.

Stop it.

They place these cameras in mostly these black community for revenue.

Oh yes, and and and uh in the future, I have no permanent friendship.

30 seconds in this.

All I all we do is have each other.

We got to stop fighting each other.

You don't see no other in the group doing that but us.

We got to come together here to move the needle to help our people.

We must become selfish.

Where she has a simple question.

Where are you gonna place these cameras?

And then over there just looking and smiling at me.

Is something wrong here?

We should never.

And time is expired.

Zoe Lee, please.

Never be disconnected.

Never black neighborhood is revenue.

Hi, my name is Zoe Lee.

I'm the founder of Chicago Flips Red.

Um, I want to play something real quick to Miss Stamps, just so she can understand.

Um, you know, I never came at you ever, never was disrespectful to you or anything, but you brought our name up.

And I don't know why.

And since then it's been an issue, but I don't have no issue with you.

I just would like an apology because I don't know why you would bring up my name, especially when we're dealing with a violence crisis in our communities, and you just spoke about it, and I agree with everything that you said, and they're not going, they need to give you the data just on respect because you're coming from Cabrini Green.

Now if you're gonna play a recording, we don't have permission.

What do you mean?

We don't have permission from the author of the city.

I'm sorry, y'all have permission.

You can speak as long as you want, ma'am, but we will not be able to hear your recording.

Yeah, I'm gonna be able to do that.

We're gonna ask we're gonna ask for the mic to be turned on.

All right, thank you.

At the end of the day, y'all, you know what you said on that October 17th, 2025.

The National Guard, we have an act of genocide going on in our communities.

Okay, we do, okay, and no one cares about it.

The Republicans here don't care about it, Sean Morrison don't care about it.

That's why I'm never I will never back Darren Bailey and Aaron Del Mar.

But I'm definitely not backing JB Pritzer, the eminent domain man.

Okay.

The reason why I came down here, and I've been coming down here because of what the the federal judge just just uh said on Monday about it's unconstitutional, honestly, to take people's property for property tax and not getting equity.

But that's the the crazy thing is my property wasn't even taken because of property taxes.

Yeah, it was it was knocked down because you guys were trying to take the uh because it was in the tip zone, and y'all gonna continue to give it to Qualkin Bush, Richard Daly's buddy.

So one minute at the end of the day, this is just what it happens.

You should give my minutes back for what you did, but you don't care.

But anyway, as a group, as a group, as a group, uh we should not be like this.

If you love this city, if you from the south side and you see what Brandon Johnson is doing, he's literally trying to take the south side from her us, literally trying to take the south side from us, and she's not gonna you of course she's not gonna agree with it because she's his lap dog.

So that's just what it is.

You heard me?

First amendment, baby, first amendment, baby.

Like I said, y'all like y'all, and I love that y'all keep going back and forth with me because y'all know y'all wrong.

Y'all know you ignorant, you've been ignorant.

You ignorant like them braids.

Please go ahead.

You've been ignorant.

Zoe Lee, you have to address the body.

She's talking.

She's talking to you not saying nothing.

You're not saying nothing as she's talking.

Chairman.

So I'm just saying, at the end of the day, respect me like you want me to respect y'all.

And if you're not, I'm gonna continue to come down here and expose y'all until the federal government comes in and do this forensic audit.

Because y'all ain't got no money because y'all been stealing it.

So that's why they don't respect you.

They're gonna make sure that they continue to do what they do.

Because you an idiot.

Chairman, that concludes our thank you.

Vice Chair Morrison, would you please move the approval of the minutes?

Yes, Chairman.

Uh I move to approve the committee minutes of January 14th, 2026 meeting item number 26-1401.

Thank you.

Moved by Vice Chair Morrison, seconded by Commissioner Naya.

Any discussion?

If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Oppose nay and the opinion of the chair.

Oh, yes, Commissioner Stanley.

Madam Chair, um when we open committee meetings, yes, the secretary of the board articulates the behavior, the decorum, the zext for the meeting.

Correct.

My question is at what point does that get enforced?

When when we when what point is being called an idiot, is being called these disparaging remarks fall under First Amendment rights and further by the fact that there is word about not interrupting, not speaking from there are all of these rules.

And my question is at what point do we enforce the words that are coming out that are that governs the body, this this space?

And we can ask about it to Laura.

Do you think that is a legal determination about when you move from having your first amendment right for a discussion in your first amendment right to be heard?

There's a lot of case law on that nationally about when that turns into harassment intimidation, and then when that person needs to be removed.

So I think that's a legal determination that our parliamentarian would have to make.

And so we can definitely have a further and larger conversation about that.

I think it's a good question.

And I think that that's a determination that I would rely on the legal counsel for.

Is that fair?

That's fair.

Who's the parliamentary Laura Lakowitz?

And thank you.

You're welcome.

I hear you.

I see you.

Okay.

Um where were we?

Commissioner 1134.

Yes.

Commissioner Anaya, will you please make a motion for the next item?

Yes, thank you, Chair.

I'd like to move to receive and file item 26-1134.

This is the ARPA investing in families and youth.

Um review.

Thank you.

Move by Commissioner Naya, seconded by Commissioner Britton.

This item is the Office of the County Auditors ARPA review of NT 900.

It was a reporting period that's been reviewed from November 1st, 2022 through November 30th of 24.

Um, it really just the report evaluates the monitoring process over the county's utilization of these funds.

Our auditor is Heath Wolf, and he's here to talk about this uh audit here today.

Heath.

Good afternoon, madam.

Good afternoon, madam chair.

Uh, my name is Heath Wolf.

Uh-huh.

Green light is on.

Thank you.

That's it.

Uh, good afternoon, uh, commissioners.

Uh, madam chair.

Uh, my name is Heath Wolf.

I'm with the Office of the County Auditor.

As you indicated, uh, we conducted a uh ARPA review of the investing in families and youth in T 900.

Um the objectives of our review were to evaluate the monitoring process over the utilization of ARPA funds for the program and to determine if program funds were used as intended.

Overall, we determined that based upon our review, uh, we concluded that the monitoring process over the the utilization of ARPA funds was adequate and program funds were used and as intended.

We did make three observations.

The first was regarding the time tracking supervisor attestation forms were submitted late uh by the Bureau of Economic Development.

In all due fairness to them, uh, what the Bureau of Economic Development did was more uh robust than the county's requirements.

And uh while technically they didn't f uh follow the the requirements, what they did was more robust, and we acknowledge that in our report.

Um we found that um uh DBMS did not automatically trigger the required risk reassessment uh of the this uh um this program uh following a contract amendment and then the other uh observation that we had attributable to uh DBMS is they uh approved uh an advancement that exceeded the 50 percent of the recorded fiscal year budget um in all fairness due to DBMS uh on that uh it uh was uh they advanced 51 percent and technically the requirements limit to 50 percent but again overall we found that uh the the uh program was monitored uh correctly and that the program funds were used uh correctly.

Any questions from the commissioners did they respond to that one percent?

The uh the Bureau of Economic Development did provide management comments, so just as a reference uh and a reminder uh to the audit committee on every uh draft report uh that the Office of the County Auditor uh issues as of uh since I uh joined the office last year.

We issue a draft report for technical comments and we issue a draft for management comments.

Neither uh the Bureau of Economic Development or uh DBMS uh provided technical comments.

Um the Bureau of Economic Development did provide uh management comments which are included in their entirety in the final report.

Uh the um DBMS did not provide any management comments.

Do we know why they didn't respond?

Um I do not remember, I apologize uh chair.

Okay, are they on line so they can answer why they didn't respond?

Yes, um this is kind of so hard to county's budget director.

Uh good afternoon.

Uh thank you so much for the question.

Uh budget office did not provide any additional comments given that we have worked with the auditors and heath teams uh you know over the last several weeks, and we are in agreement with what uh has been reported.

I believe that the auditor report provides a good summary of our discussion and what we have shared.

Um and we didn't find that uh additional you know comments weren't necessary at this point.

Thank you.

Uh Commissioner Daly.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh but he I think it's noteworthy to say you you indicated and we said that beds was they're they were more robust.

Yes, sir.

Than the uh guidelines from the federal government.

Yes, sir.

It says a lot about them and uh thank you.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

You can continue.

That's all that's it.

Okay, sounds good.

Um the motion on the floor is to receive and file.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Ma'am, it is a roll call vote.

Oh I meant I said a roll call then moved by Commissioner Naya, second by Commissioner Brittany.

Commissioner Aguilar, your votes are Commissioner Aguilar is absent.

Commissioner Naya.

Aye aye, Commissioner Britton.

Aye, Commissioner Daly, Commissioner Gaynor, absent, Commissioner Laurie.

Aye, Commissioner McCasco, Commissioner Miller, Miller, aye.

Commissioner Moore.

Absent.

Commissioner Marita.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Previous votes were all aye.

Commissioner Sean Morrison.

Aye.

Commissioner Scott is absent.

Commissioner Stamps.

Aye.

Commissioner Trevor.

Aye.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Aye.

And Madam Chair.

Aye.

Madam Chair, you have 13 ayes for absent.

They are.

Aguilar, Gaynor, Moore, and Scott.

Thank you.

And opinion of the chair.

The ayes have it.

I'll now entertain that motion to adjourn.

That is moved by Commissioner Vasquez, seconded by Commissioner Stamps.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Opposed, nay, and the